WordPress has a fairly strong mechanism to deal with spammers and trolls. Yet we need some specialized plugins to deal with this problem. The most popular anti-Spam plugin Akismet is used on almost every WordPress blog. However, some trolls easily bypass this security and create an unpleasant experience for the blog owner as well as for the community as a whole. Although there's no silver bullet to stop them, captcha systems act as a deterrent to a certain extent. Here's the collection of the best captcha plugins for WordPress-powered websites and blogs. These plugins easily embed a captcha form that cannot be bypassed by spambots and automated trolls. This significantly reduces the amount of spam you're currently receiving on your WordPress site. In case, you're not receiving too much spam on your blog, I'll advise you to avoid such plugins as they lower the user experience for genuine visitors. So, let's check out these powerful captcha plugins one by one to find the best one for our blog or site.
9 Reasons Free Web Hosting Is Not Good for Your WordPress Blog
By Rajeev Edmonds
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Wednesday, December 07, 2011
There are dozens of free web hosting offers provided by different companies for WordPress bloggers that claim lots of features at no price. Have you ever tried these services and how was your experience? I am not talking about WordPress.com or Blogger.com which are highly reliable and robust blog hosting services. My focus is on other web hosting services that come up with alluring free hosting plans to attract potential clients. Their strategy is to build a free plan user-base and later on try to persuade them to upgrade to a paid plan. If you've ever tried them, you better know the associated pitfalls. I've tried to tabulate all the common shortcomings one may face while running their WordPress site on these free hosting services. This will help you in taking the right decision whether you should use a free hosting plan for your business blog or not. And, if you're running a casual hobby blog, you may opt for a free plan on a temporary basis. So, let's check out what these hosting plans actually offer to WordPress bloggers.
WordPress has a fairly strong mechanism to